Athens man get 25 years for making child porn

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Jan 19, 2013 at 12:01 AMJan 19, 2013 at 11:45 AM

Calling the crime "one of the worst I've ever seen since I've been on the bench," U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley sent an Athens man to prison for 25 years yesterday for having an ongoing, "exploitive" sexual relationship with a young boy.

Kathy Lynn Gray, The Columbus Dispatch

Calling the crime “one of the worst I’ve ever seen since I’ve been on the bench,” U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley sent an Athens man to prison for 25 years yesterday for having an ongoing, “exploitive” sexual relationship with a young boy.

“This is the consequence of you robbing this boy of his youth,” Marbley told Jason L. Hutchinson, 42, after reading the sentence in federal court in Columbus.

The victim’s mother sat in the courtroom, shaking uncontrollably.

On a courtroom bench across from her sat Hutchinson’s parents and other relatives.

Hutchinson was charged in April with two counts of producing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography after investigators in Boston found child-porn videos and photos while searching the house of a known sex offender. The videos showed a man, later identified as Hutchinson, having multiple sex acts with a young boy.

After FBI agents searched Hutchinson’s home at 4353 Campbell Rd. in March, he admitted having sex with a boy who was 11. He recorded the act and sent it to the man in Boston.

The investigation revealed that he also had had sex with another boy for several years.

He pleaded guilty to producing child pornography in August as part of a plea deal. In exchange, the other two counts were dropped.

Federal public defender Steven S. Nolder, who represented Hutchinson, said his client was injured as a young child and had the emotional and intellectual capacity of a 12-year-old. He said he was sexually abused by relatives for nine years as a child and as a result was never able to form emotional attachments.

Marbley, however, said that while Hutchinson’s abuse as a child was “unimaginable,” he was responsible for his acts as an adult.

“Mr. Hutchinson exploited a relationship of trust, and he was smart enough to make a video of it and share it with others,” Marbley said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Heather Hill said that Hutchinson’s background “doesn’t change the complete devastation of the victim and of the victim’s mother” and the fact that he had “caused a child a lifetime of pain.”

Hutchinson has been in jail since his arrest. At the hearing he said he regretted his actions.